Tuesday December 11, 2007
New OpenSolaris Project: SquashFS
The OpenSolaris storage community recently announced an other exciting project. The SquashFS project is getting started and looks quite interesting.
From the project page:
"Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system optimized for memory-constrained systems.
We plan to write a complete driver which would enable the kernel to boot from a Squashfs file system, thus enabling Live-CD/DVDs to use it.
It would also allow Solaris to access embedded devices using Squashfs, such as some Motorola phones."
Wouldn't that be cool to have OpenSolaris running on a cell phone? Actually I've heard that they guys that are working on Bellinix have something prototyped. Maybe they could comment?
Congratulations to Thomas on getting this project started and I wish you much success!
Posted by Jeff Cheeney [Open Source Storage] ( December 11, 2007 05:12 PM ) Permalink
